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sasr personnel were deployed to iraq to protect the australian embassy when the security of baghdad was threatened by the 2014 northern iraq offensive. later, in august and september a number of raaf c @ - @ 17 and c @ - @ 130j transport aircraft based in the middle east were used to conduct airdrops of humanitarian aid to trapped civilians and to airlift arms and munitions to forces in kurdish @ - @ controlled northern iraq. in late september 2014 an air task group ( atg ) and special operations task group ( sotg ) were deployed to al minhad air base in the united arab emirates as part of the coalition to combat islamic